Die ‚Platte‘ als sozio-technisches System

Hannemann, Christine

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“…The goal of this work was the identification and development of the "socialist way of life," an ideologically charged concept that, as Christine Hannemann explains, "turned the normative assumptions of historical materialism into a research concept without questioning the normativity of these assumptions." 48 Yet, however ideological overdetermined sociology was in the later years of the GDR, it nonetheless marked a shift insofar as it understood the success of socialism not in the ability to produce large quantities of industrial goods or in the success in imbuing citizens with a belief in socialism but in the everyday practices of ordinary citizens and in their interactions with one another.…”

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The New Socialist Man in the Plattenbau: The East German Housing Program and the Development of the Socialist Way of Life

Sammartino

2017

Journal of Urban History

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This article argues that the importance of housing and the urban environment in East Germany in the second half of its existence grew in tandem with a new vision of socialist society and the means that the state should employ to create it. The East German Housing Program, inaugurated in 1971, made space the primary category in which individual and social transformation was envisioned, replacing the pedagogical processes that had originally stood at its heart. In doing so, architects and urban planners drew on three strands of urban planning that have often been seen in conflict in other contexts: the Soviet concept of the Mikroraion or socialist neighborhood, the modernist housing ensemble of Le Corbusier, and the new urbanism of Jane Jacobs.

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The New Socialist Man in the Plattenbau: The East German Housing Program and the Development of the Socialist Way of Life

Sammartino

2017

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“…Whereas Liebknecht was personally invested in the previous denunciation of "formalism," Gerhard Kosel was rmly committed to the prospects of industrialized construction and prefabrication technology. 88 If Liebknecht stood for socialist realism, Kosel emerged as the chief architect of Eastern bloc-wide exchange in industrial building methods. 89 Later that year, he was handpicked to lead the Comecon's Berlin-based permanent commission on construction, whose task was to oversee the exchange of construction technology and architectural standards among member states.…”

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The Socialist Design: Urban Dilemmas in Postwar Europe and the Soviet Union

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2012

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“…As a notion it carries a whole range of connotations. During GDR times, Plattenbau and Plattenbau areas were seen as an important component in producing socialist citizens, whereas after German Unity this building type and its areas turned into one of the symbols of failure of the GDR urban policies (see Hannemann, 2005;Richter, 2006). To simply translate Plattenbau with 'industrialised building type of the GDR' or similar half sentences captures but a fragment of the politically charged content of this notion.…”

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Translating productively: texts, contexts and concepts

Gribat¹

2009

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Summary Summary Summary SummaryThis paper examines the role of language and translation in social science research with a focus on methodological issues. So far, these have received relatively little attention in publications on social science methodologies as well as in lively languagerelated debates in human geography journals of recent years. The lack of methodological concern is surprising, as there seems to be an increasing interest in international and comparative research and practice. However, the literature suggests that in order to draw out the political implications of translation, which are otherwise glossed over, it needs to go beyond transferring text from source language to target language as a seamless reproduction of the original. Like this, it becomes an issue of methodological concern. I therefore suggest approaching translation as a productive open-ended process that pays close attention to specificities of contexts and concepts and makes cultural difference visible throughout the research process. This approach aims at decentring taken-for-granted assumptions about the clarity of meaning in the source as well as in the target language. In reviewing the existing literature on issues of language, power and translation this paper builds on my experiences of doing a PhD as a foreign student in England.

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Die ‚Platte‘ als sozio-technisches System

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The New Socialist Man in the Plattenbau: The East German Housing Program and the Development of the Socialist Way of Life

The New Socialist Man in the Plattenbau: The East German Housing Program and the Development of the Socialist Way of Life

The Socialist Design: Urban Dilemmas in Postwar Europe and the Soviet Union

Translating productively: texts, contexts and concepts

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